Effort Gift Quotes

#1. If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.

Thomas Merton

#2. Forgiveness is not a result of our efforts, but is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit who showers us with mercy and grace that pours forth unceasingly from the open heart of Christ crucified and risen.

Pope Francis

#3. Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Helen Keller

#4. Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

Douglas B. Reeves

#5. Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

Alan Cohen

#6. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,

Gregory David Roberts

#7. One Valentine's Day I woke up to find that my husband had laid a trail of red hearts from the bed and halfway around the house to my present. The gift was small because we didn't have much money but I was touched to the heart by the effort he had made to surprise and please me.

Lynne Graham

#8. It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts.
In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

#9. It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius - progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

William Wickenden

#10. The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few.

Dalai Lama XIV

#11. A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.

Gary Chapman

#12. Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Albert Camus

#13. Gift ain't what you take by effort,
as swag ain't what you worthy have.

Toba Beta

#14. Reach for success knowing that the gift of effort is instantly yours, and that the journey is the most rewarding and fulfilling destination.

Bryant McGill

#15. Humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

John Piper

#16. There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart.
What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.

Dan Zadra

#17. Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

Wang Yangming

#18. You were formed inside a borrowed womb - a nourishing safe haven for months - then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey

#20. This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.

Randy Alcorn

#21. Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Bret Harte